Friday, 31 May 2013

Hi Everyone....so excited today to
be posting as a designer here at Green Tara!! It is such an honor to be a
part of this amazing team. Here`s a little about me....

My name is Sandi Smith and I live in
Newfoundland, Canada with my wonderful husband and 2 great kids, Rick
is 21 and Claudine is 14.I did my first layout in January 2010 and was
immediately hooked! I am obsessed with all things associated with
scrapping and I am always in "scrapbook mode ", constantly looking at
things in our everyday lives for sources of inspiration. I love to tear, wrinkle, sew and to get messy with gesso, mists and paint. I
also love to refinish antique furniture and my latest love is painting
girls on mixed media backgrounds. I
don`t feel I have a definite style...my creations can be vintage,
shabby chic or loaded with paints ,sprays and gesso...depends on my
mood and what inspires me at that time.

OK...here is my first layout of my sweet girl...

"Exquisite"

I
used the gorgeous Kaisercraft Basecoat collection and went a little
crazy with molding paste and gelatos. Just look at those gorgeous Heirloom flowers in yellow and red and they come in different sizes!!!

I also used TONS of Skeleton Leaves and some smaller flowers...the red flower spray, cherry blossoms, rosebuds and roses.

You will also see some natural Raffia weaved through the ScrapMatts Chipboard Frame and tucked into the flower cluster.

I used mainly pinks and yellows and
gave the cluster a few sprays of Cosmos Glimmermist and a few dabs of
pink paint...love this color combo. There`s Azaleas, Heirloom, Roses,
Cherry Blossoms, tiny rosebudsand Skeleton Leaves all tucked into that
cluster! You will also see some of the new Burlap Ribbon in Watermelon
nestled in there too!

And a couple more closeups...

My last project for this month is a Birthday card that once again uses the beautiful Azaleas, cherry blossoms and skeleton Leaves.I just love that gorgeous lace trim along the bottom of the card.

All the chippies you see on my projects are from Scrapmatts.That`s it for me this month and Happy Scrapping!!

Sunday, 19 May 2013

First up today, I have a little bit of sunshine to share with you. The theme for my blog this year is sunflowers, to help bring a little shine to my life, but somehow they are also making it into my scraproom, which is a great thing!!

Sunshine

I snapped a photo of one of my 'fake' sunflowers and popped it on Instagram and thought why not scrap it. I love this deep yellow and thought it would make a fun change in colour to scrap.

When looking through my Green Tara stash I found this rather 'out there' {for me anyways} wired orange organza ribbon with green and yellow flowers, and knew right away I had to use it for this layout, isn't it perfectly fabulous!?! Softened with a sweet bow of white polka dot organza it really has become a wonderful feature on my page and I love it.

I have layered some 10cm Petals which I have trimmed in half first, White Petals, Gardenias and sweet little Yellow Roses to create a couple of sweet bouquets of flowers! The Petals have very quickly become a new favourite of mine, proving that nothing in scrapping truly is 'old', everything can be used again in different ways, a great product is always a great product!

I've also tucked in some velvet leaves to add a little more luxury and some sweet little bows. These bows are ready made and are soooo iddy tiny, I couldn't tie them that small myself if I tried!

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I found this photo somewhere on the net, either Pinterest or Facebook, and was moved by it. The books wrapped in scrap paper, the pretty flowers, the gorgeous colours! So it had to be scrapped.. I'm going to frame this one and use it as decoration in my scrap room.

Luxuriate

It's a simple design, but the patterns in the paper, and all these gorgeous flowers, ribbons and lace from Green Tara make it look just right!

These Batik Vintage Asters were the perfect shades to match the papers and the photo... how sweet are they!?! I love the green stamen centres on these as well as the mottled pattern on the petals.

I've tucked in some cherry blossoms and white roses with the asters and layered some petals to tuck in under the cluster edges. I've also folded over some little offcuts of the polka dot organza and herringbone ribbons to make little 'tabs', which I have tucked in under my photo and paper layers to add interest.

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And lastly I have this one to share with you which I did
a few weeks ago now.

Sing

This is myself and my friend Nancy, hamming it up for the camera at Tomorrow's Memories last 12 hour crop. The theme was the 70's and it was FUN! Lots of ABBA, bad singing, terrible clothes and heaps of naughtiness!

The Polka Dot Organza was such a great match for the polka dot background papers, simply couldn't not use it!

Another fabulous match was these Apple Blossoms and Cherry Blossoms, it's like they were made for the page!

About Us

Green Tara is an Australian Wholesaler of beautiful flowers, ribbons, laces, embellishments & more that are sold in retail shops around the world. We are constantly adding new & innovative products to our already extensive range. To see more of our lovely products visit our website. www.greentara.com.au